Australian PM calls general election on May 21

Prime Minister of Australia has called elections for May 21 and the central issues in the race will include Chinese economic coercion, climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic.

The first Minister Scott Morrison recommended on Sunday to Governor General David Hurley that as representative of the head of state of Australia, Queen Elizabeth II, set the date of the elections.

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morrison announced on Sunday that Australia It will go to the polls on May 21. The Conservative Coalition morrison He is seeking a fourth three-year term.

He urged voters to opt for a government that has recorded one of the lowest death tolls from the pandemic of any advanced economy rather than take the risk of relying on the Labor Party.

“This election is a choice between a government that you know and has been delivering on and a Labor opposition that you don’t know about,” Morrison stressed.

In the previous election, in 2019, morrison and his government scored a narrow victory despite opinion polls giving the lead to the centre-left opposition Australian Labor Party.

The Liberal Party-led coalition is again down in most polls, but many analysts predict a close result.

The previous elections took place in what was the hottest and driest year in Australia. That year ended with devastating forest fires in southeastern Australia which caused more than 33 direct deaths and more than 400 due to smoke inhalation.

The fire also destroyed more than 3,000 homes and swept through 19 million hectares (47 million acres) of farmland and forest during the southern hemisphere summer.

morrison He was heavily criticized for secretly going on a family vacation to Hawaii when the crisis was at its height and a cloud of toxic smoke covered his hometown of Sydney.

The prime minister cut his vacation short due to adverse public reaction, which was exacerbated when he explained his absence: “I don’t carry a hose.”

His government was censured for its response to the fires and this 2022 for the record floods in the same areas devastated two years ago in the southeast of Australia.

Both the government and the opposition have set a goal of achieving net-zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050.

Source: Elcomercio

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